The Stone Tablet That Changed Everything

Kris has always been drawn to the strange-the kind of person who collects stories about ghosts, practices witchcraft, and knows better than to trust anything ancient covered in symbols. Which makes buying a weathered stone tablet from an antique shop for twenty euros seem almost reasonable. At least, until a week of studying its forgotten runes leads her to a ritual she probably should not have altered. The gate that opens in her bedroom was never supposed to exist, and neither was the man who steps through it. Vaelric is powerful, guarded, and far too familiar with the world Kris has accidentally reached into. But the tablet did not open just one door. Something else has crossed the boundary-something ancient enough to remember a time before demons, before kingdoms, before the world was divided into realms. Malachrakar is everything Kris should fear, and yet neither he nor Vaelric seems willing to leave her behind. One offers protection. The other watches with a fascination that feels far more dangerous. As the strange power sleeping within Kris begins to awaken, she is forced to confront the possibility that the tablet did not choose her by accident-and that opening the gate may have set something in motion that cannot simply be undone. She never asked for their worlds, their attention, or the chaos that followed. But if they are going to turn her life upside down, Kris is determined to find out why this happened, why the ancient tablet seems to have chosen her, and what exactly is stirring beneath her skin whenever she reaches for abilities she never knew she possessed-abilities that, at first, did not even seem like abilities at all. And perhaps, along the way, she might finally discover why two beings from another world seem so interested in her.